CircuitSpells

joined 1 year ago
[–] CircuitSpells 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's funny, the first two are the same as mine. Do you us microsoft swiftkey?

[–] CircuitSpells 3 points 1 month ago

8 should be way higher. You can be sexist and not like Trump, and not vote because of it. I'd also add high on that list: rampant and nonstop right wing propoganda in all media formats (news, podcasts, YouTube channels, etc.) with no equivalent left leaning alternative. It should come as no surprise that young men are leaning right when casual mysogony and racism flood the content they watch, even when the content itself isn't strictly political.

[–] CircuitSpells 15 points 2 months ago

Don't let this fool you, not from him and not from anyone representing a corporation. Corporations time and time again will say and do whatever it takes to profit, including pretending to care about human rights.

[–] CircuitSpells 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This still exists, at least in Mexico

[–] CircuitSpells 2 points 3 months ago

Benn Jordan is one of my favorite people on the internet, glad to see him getting shared here. Such a genuinely smart and interesting dude.

[–] CircuitSpells 3 points 4 months ago

Who didn't see this coming from a thousand miles away when they announced they were going public? Here comes the endless churn of trying to keep shareholders artificially interested

[–] CircuitSpells 5 points 4 months ago

If you use a VPN you will likely hit the limit, already happened to me

[–] CircuitSpells 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can someone explain how this is even possible with a service like Signal? I was under the impression that encrypted messages can't be intercepted.

Extremely frustrating either way, I hate constantly having to manage different messaging services with different people and I'd really like to not have to add one more if signal becomes compromised.

 

Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family’s irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force. Several of his children are fighting back.

[–] CircuitSpells 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How sure are you about that? Microsoft very dependably releases updates on the second Tuesday of the month, and their release notes show if updates are pushed out of schedule. Their last update was on schedule, July 9th.

[–] CircuitSpells 56 points 5 months ago (28 children)

I mean I know it's easy to be critical but this was my exact thought, how the hell didn't they catch this in testing?

[–] CircuitSpells 2 points 5 months ago

"We could debate that if you're interested" is why I love lemmy

[–] CircuitSpells 7 points 5 months ago

I'm very much in the same boat, also joined around 2011. I didn't leave because of the API changes, I left because the website was degrading substantially as a byproduct of its userbase.

Lemmy contains so much of what made reddit special in the early days. It was primarily tech-proficient people who cultivated a strong community, held each other accountable, and valued science and evidence.

As more users came to reddit, the initial community diluted. Certain subreddits were still special and worth checking out, but the greater whole was too massive for its own good. Plus, I suspect a huge number of new users were teenagers and children, and their comments and maturity reflected that.

I knew it was basically over once I saw comments on subreddits that regularly made the front page with extremely obvious bigotry and racism. Incescent bashing of women. Comments that reflected the vile nature of the shit comments you'd see on Instagram. This was becoming all too common and was not being moderated. The remaining comments felt like washed out circle jerking or a complete lack of critical thinking.

The IPO was the nail in the coffin. No good could possibly come from that for the users of the site. Haven't been there for over a year and have zero regrets.

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